Turns out the bollards disappeared a day after their painstaking install, but it looks like the dog toilet is actually working! Just got this message from Tracy:

Chris,
I’ve been emptying the sand pit regularly…people are throwing their ‘doggy bags’ in there.

The front page of our local paper ran a headline about young offenders having to clear up the dog shit off the pavements.We’ve set something in motion here.(excuse the pun)…